Grip Collection 86-P-21-029

86-P-2l-029
Closeup of the bucketline and the tumbler, and gangplank. Bucket lips are pretty well worn down. "They get worn down and then they have to replace them and rivet them. I understand years later they have improved so that it was no trick to change the lip on a bucket. It doesn't show it, but I can remember I did a little welding there and we had a good mechanic, Bill Zibell, from Marysville, WA. He showed me some stuff. In those years, we used what was called a studite rod. It was a hard rod , a hard surface rod, and it was welded on. We would run the beads across that and it would reduce the bucket wear, the lip wear where it was digging into hard, solid ground and running against rock."